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Koyama, Helen
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Helen Koyama is a Sansei writer and artist based in Toronto. During World War II, her family was subjected to the internment of Japanese Canadians and forced to live in its camps.
Deeply involved with the Japanese Canadian community in Toronto, she worked for The New Canadian, an English-language newspaper published by and for the Japanese Canadian community. She published her poetry in the newspaper and in the pioneering Asian Canadian anthology, Inalienable Rice (1979), and contributed illustrations for Rikka and Ricepaper magazine.
Helen and her sister, Annie, founded Koyama Press in 2007. The award-winning comic book publisher operated in Toronto until 2021.
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Created by Alston So, March 2026.